Buoyancy-induced, columnar vortices with application to power generation
Buoyancy-induced, columnar vortices (dust devils) that are driven by thermal instabilities of ground-heated, stratified air in areas with sufficient insolation convert the potential energy of low-grade heat in the near-surface air layers into a vortex flow with significant kinetic energy. A variant...
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54434 |